DART: Double Asteroid Redirection Test

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The DART mission is NASA's demonstration of kinetic impactor technology, impacting an asteroid to adjust its speed and path. DART was the first-ever space mission to demonstrate asteroid deflection by kinetic impactor. It impacted the moonlet Dimorphos on September 26, 2022.

The final five-and-a-half minutes of images leading up to the DART spacecraft's intentional collision with asteroid Dimorphos.

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Infographic showing the effect of DART's impact on the orbit of Dimorphos.

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images from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, taken (left to right) 22 minutes, 5 hours, and 8.2 hours after NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) Credit: Science: NASA, ESA, Jian-Yang Li (PSI); image processing: Alyssa Pagan (STScI)

images from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, taken (left to right) 22 minutes, 5 hours, and 8.2 hours after NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART)

Credit: Science: NASA, ESA, Jian-Yang Li (PSI); image processing: Alyssa Pagan (STScI)

A series of radar images captured at different times on Oct. 9, 2022, of the Didymos and Dimorphos binary asteroid system.Credit: NASNASA/Johns Hopkins APL/JPL/NASA JPL Goldstone Planetary Radar/National Science Foundation’s Green Bank ObservatoryNASA/Johns Hopkins APL/JPL/A/Johns Hopkins APL/JPL/NASA JPL Goldstone Planetary Radar/National Science Foundation's Green Bank Observatory

A series of radar images captured at different times on Oct. 9, 2022, of the Didymos and Dimorphos binary asteroid system.

Credit: NASNASA/Johns Hopkins APL/JPL/NASA JPL Goldstone Planetary Radar/National Science Foundation’s Green Bank ObservatoryNASA/Johns Hopkins APL/JPL/A/Johns Hopkins APL/JPL/NASA JPL Goldstone Planetary Radar/National Science Foundation's Green Bank Observatory

An image from ASI’s LICIACube show the plumes of ejecta streaming from the Dimorphos asteroid after NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirect Test,Credit: ASI/NASA/APL

An image from ASI’s LICIACube show the plumes of ejecta streaming from the Dimorphos asteroid after NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirect Test,

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See https://dart.jhuapl.edu

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